Zen Buddhist rhetoric in China, Korea, and Japan / edited by Christoph Anderl.

One of the key factors for the success of the Chán/Sǒn/Zen schools in East Asia was the creativity of their adherents concerning the development of innovative literary genres and the skillful application of linguistic and rhetorical devices in their textual products. From the very beginning, Zen Bud...

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Superior document:Conceptual history and Chinese linguistics, v. 3
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Conceptual history and Chinese linguistics ; v. 3.
Physical Description:1 online resource (489 p.)
Notes:"The papers included in this volume are originally based on presentations given at a conference on Zen Buddhist rhetoric in the autumn of 2008 in Norway."
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Chán Rhetoric: An Introduction / Christoph Anderl
  • Rhetoric of Emptiness / Jens Braarvig
  • ‘Thus Have I Heard’ and Other Claims to Authenticity: Development of Rhetorical Devices in the Sarvāstivāda Ṣaṭpādābhidharma Texts / Bart Dessein
  • Reading the One Hundred Parables Sūtra: The Dialogue Preface and the Gāthā Postface / Christoph Harbsmeier
  • Coming to Terms with Terms: The Rhetorical Function of Technical Terms in Chán Buddhist Texts / Christoph Anderl
  • Beyond Perfection: The Rhetoric of Chán Poetry in Wáng Wéi’s Wăng Stream Collection / Halvor Eifring
  • Some Preliminary Remarks to a Study of Rhetorical Devices in Chán Yŭlù 禪語錄 Encounter Dialogues / Christian Wittern
  • The Rhetoric of Chinese Language in Japanese Zen / William M. Bodiford
  • Dōgen’s Appropriation of Chinese Chán Sources: Sectarian and Non-Sectarian Rhetorical Perspectives / Steven Heine
  • Pojo Chinul 普照矢口訥 and Kanhwa Sŏn 看話禪: Reconciling the Language of Moderate and Radical Subitism / Robert Buswell
  • From Apologetics to Subversion; Some Initial Observations on Sŏlcham's 雪專 Chodong owi yohae 曹J同五位要解 / Jörg Plassen
  • Hyujŏng’s Sŏn’ga kwigam and its Historical Setting and Soteriological Strategies / Jongmyung Kim
  • Manhae Han Yongun’s Attempt at Producing an All-Inclusive Modern Buddhist Compendium – Pulgyo Taejŏn / Vladimir Tikhonov
  • Sermons by Xū Yún – A Special Transmission Within the Scriptures / Therese Sollien
  • Index.